The Ashkenazi Revolution

208If the Sephardim understand that their hope of reviving the civilization ofthe “golden age” is a pathetic deception, and if they, and all the otherMizrahi peoples, recognize us as the chosen people among the Jewishpeoples, then there will be an easy path to the solution, that is to say, to thetransformation of the State of Israel into an Ashkenazi state, as it wassupposed to be from the beginning, and as it practically is already. TheState of Israel, in its present form, has no long-lasting political substance,and it is quickly striding toward the bursting point. The word “Israel” hasnever implied political unity among Jewish peoples. In its religiousmeaning, this word expresses the symbolism and essence of the religionunique to us. In its demographic meaning, it constitutes the term for allpeople who fly this religious banner. But, in the political sense, it impliesall the tribes that are not Judah. The expression “Israel and Judah”, or“Judah and Israel”, that was often used in the days of the First Temple,expresses the division of the tribes into two political camps, the camp ofJudah and the camp of Israel, that is to say not-Judah. In this usage there isa shocking contradiction compared to the other definitions of, and theconcept of, the word Israel. All the concepts that are included in this wordexpress unity, an extreme unity, but in the political sphere, the wordexpresses division and extreme separation between the camps of Judah andIsrael.The political unity of all the tribes was an artificial creation, which arosethrough the strength of King David’s military dictatorship. The days ofSolomon were, from a historical perspective, a big disappointment, whichreached its climax at the end of his reign. It is possible that he ceasedseeing himself as the ruler of one tribe, Judah, and weakened his ties withthe historical powers of this tribe, but at the same time, he was notsuccessful in forming an image of king of all the tribes. Therefore, he wasswept into the template of the foreign kings, and brought about social andreligious perversion. Solomon did not bring original, and new, content tothe government institution that he led, and after he realized the dreams andplans, which were woven in the days of his father David, his reign began toshow signs of weakness and artificiality. Its disintegration was natural.The nation that King David had established was a combination of Judah